With today’s release, we’re eliminating the capability to save or use unrealistic formations in Top Eleven.

On the squad screen, any time a red “!” box appears on the left side, you will not be able to save the formation or apply it in Live Match. Your formation will revert back to your previously used qualifying formation if you leave the screen without first saving.

A yellow “!” indicates that your formation could use some tweaking, but you’ll still be able to save and use these formations. These include such scenarios as playing without a deeper-lying midfielder (DMC/MC), or playing without any player on the wings.

Should a “!” box appear on the left, tap on the box to read a tooltip to find out what you’ll need to fix in order to improve your formation.

The rules used to determine unrealistic formations and when red “!” boxes show is the same as it was before; this change only affects the ability to save or apply them.

This change looks good indeed. But in other words, it also means that the game engine is so bad that it allows silly teams to win, no matter how ridiculous their tactics are. The only solution Nordeus found was to prevent them from entering the match and not to make them pay the price on the pitch, which is what you would expect from a decent game of football management.

Sorry if I 'm repeating again but the problem started with asso games and top100 list.
It's people there who are trying to keep their players (high quality -mutants) so they put whatever, just to preserve them.
They will find some other way.

If I'm 1-0 down with ten minutes to go in the cup final and I push all my outfield players to MC, AM and S, I'm going to get a red exclamation mark, if I push the tick box to save this formation will it work or will it revert to the previous formation?